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` NITED S'I'A'ras WELLNGTON H. KIRKsEY,

PATENT OFFICE oF RIENZI, MHIssIssIrPI'.

lIMPROVEMENT IN HAMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,022. dated February 1, 1876; application filed January Z'o. all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WELLING'ON H. KIRK- SEY, of Rienzi, in the county of Alcorn and State of Mississippi, have intented a new and valnable Improvement in Hames; and I (lo hereby deelare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference inarked thereon.

Figures l and 2 of the drawings are repre- Fig's. 3 and 4 are detail views thereof.

This invention has relation to means for attaching' trace-books to hames, wherehy the hooks can he adjusted up or down, for the purpose of properly tixing the line of draft on the shoulders of the animal.

The natureof my invention consistssin a flanged segment forined on the eye-piece of the draft-hook, in combination with a rod, about which the said hook articnlates, and a notched plate, which. with the rod, is rigidly secnred to the hame, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the an nexed drawings, A design ates part of a Wooden hame; B, the draft-hook;` O, the round rod or staple about which the hook articulates; and D is a plate, which is rig'idly secured to the hame on one side of a recess, a,

made in this hame. The eye-piece b of the hook B is considerably elongated to give strength and steadiness to it, and at -the middle of the length of this eye-piece a semiciroular flange, o, is formed, which is designed to eng-age in one or the other of several notches, e, formed in the plate 1),'andhold the hook at the desired point. justed, as shown in Fig. 1, the flange c is free from the plate D, and the hook can be raised or lowered on the staple O, ,and When the tlange o is opposite a notch, e, and the hook'is turned one-quarter around, it will be held in the desired'. position. The ends'of the staple (J are (lriven through the ends of the plate D, through the hame, and are clinehed firmIy, thus firnily-holding said plate on the hame.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

, A draft-hook, B, constructed with an elongated eye-piece, b, having a flange, c, in combination with the staple C and the notehed plate D, suhstantially as deserihed.

-In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscrihed my name in the presence of twowitnesses.

WELLINGTON HENRY KIRKsEY.

Witnesses:

E. A. ULARK, E. L. BULLooK.

When the hook B is ad- 

